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Lady of shalott and Morte d’ Arthur are two poems written by a poet called Alfred Lord Tennyson. ... The Lady of Shalott and Morte d’ Arthur both share a common inevitability, death. Tennyson uses various words and styles of writing to create a certain type of mood to suit the situation. This use of language creates a sense of tension and sadness.
The Lady of Shalott is about a maiden who has been imprisoned in a tower with ‘four grey walls’ surrounding ‘four grey towers’. ... Tennyson uses the wind to give a sense that something is not quite right, he uses phrases such as; ‘Willows Whiten, aspens quiver’ and little breeze dusk and shiver’ using alliteration and onomatopoeia to create a type of mood.
Tennyson introduces us to an island which seems to be alien to the surroundings, he describes it as having ‘four grey walls’ and ‘four grey towers’ which ‘imbowers (contained) the Lady of Shallot’. Tennyson then goes on to explain how the trees hung over the river shadowing the river creating misty and dark mood ‘Willow-well’d slide the heavy barges trail’d by slow horses’ to continue to telling us that something is out of place. ... He creates this dark mood by using words like ‘echoes theerly’, ‘weary’ and whispers’.
In Part II of the poem Lady of Shalott weaves a picture of what she is seeing through a mirror ‘There she weaves by night and day a magic web with colours grey’ Tennyson then tells us that ‘A curse is on her’ and she looks down at Camelot and seeing what the people are doing and then weaves it exactly as it is, Tennyson uses Lady Shalott looking through a mirror and creating a picture to introduce to the people of Camelot.
Approximate Word count = 1079
Approximate Pages = 4.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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